Viñoly Unveils Renovation of London’s Battersea Power Station
[image via BD Online] This week saw Rafael Viñoly debut his proposed renovation of London’s much-loved Battersea Power Station. The design includes a massive tower and bizarre glassed-in micro-city / biodome that bears little to no relationship with the existing power plant and its context. Predictably, reviews have not been kind — the word “menace” [...]
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A Floating Room and Broken Architecture: The Work of Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
[Social Mobility (Staircase) - image via Galleri Nicolai Wallner] Suspended from two black balloons, a sparse white room floats to the top of a repurposed Berlin train station. I’ve been haunted by this image—or rather the resulting imagined implications of it—since a trip to Berlin almost 5 years ago. It was, of course, an art [...]
Gehry On Campus and In the News
[image via NPR.org] Two Frank Gehry buildings—one existing and one proposed—have found their way into the news lately…and not for good reasons. ITEM 1: In NPR’s coverage of the Iowa floods, they took a look at the University of Iowa’s Advanced Technology Building, designed by Frank Gehry. Despite surrounding the signature, metal-clad building with sandbags, [...]
Hadid Proposal: REJECTED
[images via The Architect's Journal] Zaha Hadid has proposed a very Zaha Hadid extension to the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College in Oxford. Alas, it is not too be. Designed around a delightfully academic and relatively simple program of reading room, library, storage, and lecture hall, the proposed addition, known as The Softbridge [...]
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